[WordPress Migration] Change Domain url in seconds using phpMyAdmin

People look for a paid backup restore plugin to migrate their WordPress site from one to another domain. Paid plugin boasts of their automatic domain migration feature to sell their plugin and rightly so because it helps all those users who don’t know how to use web-hosting phpMyAdmin function.

But if you know how to use phpMyAdmin feature in your web hosting account, you will discover that changing/updating domain or any other text in WordPress database is as easy as a piece of cake. And I am sure, using phpMyAdmin is easier than anything. No coding skill required, just add pre-made lines to your database SQL tab and rest will be done itself.

When you restore Updraft backup to a different domain URL, its free version don’t update domain name url in database and you need to buy its paid extension. But following this guide you can do it for free using phpMyAdmin a database manager application web hosting account.

In this condition you don’t have access to your WordPress admin panel and all things will be done via Web hosting phpMyAdmin

Whatever hosting you have, you will find phpMyAdmin in your hosting account. (cPanel is the best hosting panel)

Locate the phpMyAdmin in your hosting account and access it

Point to be noted >>>

Many web hosts don’t allow automatic login to phpMyAdmin from hosting panel and it requires database username and password. No worry.

Using hosting file manager or FTP

go to WordPress installation folder and locate wp-config.php file

Edit it with any text editor or file manager editor

Here you will find database hostname, database username and password to login to phpMyAdmin

You will find a list of all databases created in your web hosting account.

If you are not sure which database is connected to your WordPress website, you need to find it. (Go to file manager > WordPress installation folder > Edit wp-config.php file. Here you can see the name of the database and database user and password)

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